Thank you, Raisani
8 July, 2010
Thursday, July 08, 2010 Adiah Afraz It happened one bright sunny morning in the Land of the Pure that one fine gentleman, Mr Raisani of Balochistan, announced to the whole world that cared enough to listen: a degree is a degree, genuine or fake, it doesn’t matter. Armed with this information, my gardener, who is [...]
Lip service to equality by Rafia Zakaria
7 July, 2010According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Centre, a Washington-based independent organisation, nearly 64 per cent of Pakistani men believe that a university education is more important for men than for women. The same survey also reports that nearly 79 per cent of Pakistanis (72 per cent men and 86 per cent women) [...]
Few Britons attempt to break social division by Irfan Husain
7 July, 2010A recent medical survey in Britain confirmed what we have always known: the rich live longer. Or 5.3 years to be precise, in the case of men. Working class families eat more junk food, are more prone to smoke and drink to excess, and do far less exercise than their better-off compatriots, and therefore tend [...]
Define your terms by Iftekhar A Khan
7 July, 2010Wednesday, July 07, 2010 Iftekhar A Khan The US-led NATO forces in June have suffered maximum deaths in a month since they invaded Afghanistan in 2002. British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said Pakistan has an important role to play in brokering talks between Afghanistan’s militant factions and the Karzai government. Similarly, some of the [...]
The creeping coup by Kamran Shafi
6 July, 2010As I sit listening to possibly the greatest song — ‘Alif Allah Chambey Di Booty’ by the incomparable Arif Lohar, and the remarkable Meesha Shafi — to come out of the Land of the Pure for many, many years, especially after the passing away of the great (and unlamented in this barren desert of a [...]
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